"The situation is that a thread has been cut off and it's been very difficult for the generation that came right after the nouvelle vague. Filmmakers like André Téchiné, Philippe Garrel, Jacques Doillon, Benoît Jacquot, Chantal Akerman, or in a significantly different context, Jean Eustache and Maurice Pialat, all have had to reinvent–without the support of film theory–a relationship to cinema. They are the ones who had to rebuild something. And whatever they rebuilt certainly benefited t"